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Updated: June 18, 2025
When I was acquainted with Blackheath, the ingenious device of garroting had recently come into fashion; and I can remember, while crossing those waste places at midnight, and hearing footsteps behind me, to have been sensibly encouraged by also hearing, not far off, the clinking hoof-tramp of one of the horse-patrols who do regular duty there.
Felix had therefore attached himself to his young wife by every bond without any appearance of garroting her, relying for his happiness on the charms of habit. None but men trained in the school of life men who have gone round the circle of disillusionment, political and amorous are capable of following out a course like this.
Analytic people were comparing the various modes of shooting, garroting, and guillotining. Cigars were sending up spirals of soothing smoke. There was a good deal of covert fear that a reprieve might be granted. Inquires were many and ingenuous for whisky, and one or two were so deeply expectant that they fell asleep.
They are now in the more private room, and the reason of their withdrawal is, that, according to the Chaplain of Newgate, the practice of garroting was suggested to the English thieves by this representation of Indian Thugs. It is edifying, after what I have written in the preceding paragraph, to find that the only lesson known to have been inculcated here is that of a new mode of outrage.
When I was in London twenty-three years ago there was a new penalty in force for diminishing garroting and wife-beating 25 lashes on the bare back with the cat-o'-nine-tails.
The contributor professes to have observed these changing phases in the visages of those whom he that night called from their dreams, or arrested in the act of going to bed; and he drew the conclusion very proper for his imaginable connection with the garroting and other adventurous brotherhoods that the most flattering moment for knocking on the head people who answer a late ring at night is either in their first selfish bewilderment, or their final self-abandonment to their better impulses.
There was no light of exultation in it as his great hand closed slowly upon Mackenzie's throat, no change from its stony harshness save for the dark gash and the flood of blood that ran down his jaw and neck. Mackenzie writhed and struggled, groping on the floor for something to strike Carlson with and break his garroting grip.
"'He usually came home very late. I fancy he belonged to some gambling club in town. I dare say he couldn't get a cab to bring him out here. Mind you, I don't know much about him. We only knew him to nod to. "'Poor beggar! it looks almost like an old-fashioned case of garroting.
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